The second annual Kalgoorlie Fashion Week was launched yesterday with organisers challenging themselves to bring greater diversity to its audience and participants.A public block party in St Barbara’s Square yesterday morning launched the week-long fashion celebration.Performances from local artists Reuben Wills, Sully and Darryl Mulder intertwined with catwalk shows of locally designed fashion collections by designers Kahlia-Rose, Vattessa Colbung, Moorditj Designs, Ghos Lef Haus and Maasai Activewear.Organiser Georgia Foulkes-Taylor said the event was beginning to come into its own.“I have really been happy we’ve been able to connect with diversity in the community,” she said.“Six out of ten of our paid models are women of colour, we have events specifically for the LGBTQ community — it’s for the whole community this year.“It was for the whole community last year, too, but we’ve been more proactive this year.”Goldfields Girl 2017 competitors Kayla Davies, Jonnaih Blaszkiewitz and Orwen Steinnokel made appearances, modelling clothes by local indigenous designers.One such designer was Vattessa Colbung, a Wongatja and Noongar woman who debuted the Nyuwaari collection for her artistic collective and company Desert Gem.Ms Colbung said she felt “very privileged” to be showing off the Nyuwaari collection, which means “vivacious, pretty and beautiful” in Wongatha, during Kalgoorlie Fashion Week.“Out of this I just want to bring motivation to young Aboriginal people,” she said.See More: Prom Dress| Mother of The Bride Dresses